📚 Matching Information - Exercise 9

Water Research, Transport & Nutrition

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Instructions

Which passage contains the following information?

Read the three passages below (A, B, and C), then answer the questions by selecting the correct passage for each piece of information.

Reading Passages

Passage A

The Central Water Research Facility, located at 18 Riverside Drive, Oxford, was established in 1998 to study freshwater management. In 2019, it reported that urban water consumption in the UK reached 142 litres per person per day. A government-funded project launched in March 2021 allocated £12 million to reduce leakage by 15% before 2026. The facility publishes annual reports every December, with the latest data covering the year 2023.

Passage B

In 2005, the Urban Transport Institute in Berlin, Germany, conducted a study on public transit efficiency. The institute, based at Alexanderplatz 4, recorded that daily metro usage increased by 22% between 2010 and 2018. By 2020, the average commuter spent 47 minutes per journey. A €6.4 billion investment plan was approved in July 2022 to modernise rail infrastructure.

Passage C

The Asian Nutrition Survey, headquartered at 76 Health Avenue, Seoul, began operations in 2012. According to data released in April 2024, average salt consumption in South Korea declined from 10.5 grams in 2013 to 8.1 grams in 2022. The survey covered 18,000 participants across five regions and received funding of ₩3.2 billion for its 2021–2025 research cycle.

Questions

1. Details about reduced consumption of a dietary component
2. Information about funding to improve infrastructure
3. A statistic related to daily personal usage
4. The location where transport research was conducted
5. The year an organisation began its work

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